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Voting Rights

The Scoop: WMNF’s daily digest of news headlines for Tuesday, July 11th, 2023
Moffit Cancer Center will offer free skin cancer screening on select dates in July Sunny weather makes Florida a hotspot for skin cancer, with rates higher than the national average. A Florida doctor speaks about...

“Stay Woke” Bus Tour stops in East Tampa for voting rights rally
Voting rights organizations are taking a “voter-cade” bus tour this week through 15 cities across Florida to encourage voter registration while encouraging Floridians to “Stay woke” amidst recently passed laws that impact students, teachers, and...

Good Trouble, Bad Business and Emancipation
Hillsborough N.A.A.C.P. President, Yvette Lewis, announces the Florida N.A.A.C.P. 15-city Good Trouble, Stay Woke Bus Tour and voter push. Antoinnette Davis talks about climatic change and a visit to the glaciers of Alaska. Life Malcolm...

Episode 12, 05.09.2023-Interview with Dr. Carolyn Collins as the Chair of the Jackson House Foundation to Replicate/Preserve the Historical Jackson Rooming House Building at Its Original Site.

The Forum discussed the various ways the people are underrepresented politically including talk of prison gerrymandering, redistricting, voter access and economic participation. Political diversity, voter apathy, a continued discussion about authoritarian Florida and global...

03/20/2023, Episode 9, Mississippi Passed HB 1020 is a call for Jim Crow Policies to appoint Judges to govern 83% of Black People denying citizenship.

MidPoint: The 2023 Tampa Municipal Election and New Proposed Vote Reform Legislation
The results of the Tampa municipal elections are in and there is more new, pending voting legislation coming from Tallahassee that may make it harder to register and vote.

Feminist Patriots Or Patriotic Feminists?
When America became a nation, a woman had no legal existence beyond her husband. If he abused her, she couldn’t leave without abandoning her children. Abigail Adams tried to change this, reminding her husband John...

Free Speech Where Freedom Comes To Die
Free Speech is under threat in the U.S. and especially Florida where fascist rulers manufacture punitive law. A Free Speech event is on April 29, 2023 at Tampa Prep School on Cass street in Tampa,...

Tampa run-off candidate on WMNF’s Sunday Forum
Candidate Dr. Sonja Brookins came to the Sunday Forum to discuss the issues in the run-up to the City of Tampa run-off elections. Local control, affordable housing, neighborhood empowerment and development were all on topic.

Souls to the Polls gets out the early vote
In the weekend leading up to Tampa’s municipal election, the NAACP and members of historically African American churches gathered for Souls to the Polls at an early voting site to educate and encourage residents to...

Dr. MLK Day Analysis, Pan-Afro Environmentalism
Celebration of Dr. King is a celebration of a people’s accomplishments especially the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A discussion of new threats to voting and civil rights to...